A "revolutionary" app enabling people to send and receive money just by using mobile phone numbers is to be made available to Barclays Bank customers across the UK. The Barclays Pingit allows users to send and receive cash to or from anyone with a UK current account and mobile phone number, without having to share bank details. The app, which is free to download and use, links the user's current account wit ...

The new look for the upcoming BlackBerry London designed by Porsche was leaked to the Web back in November. Photos of the metallic, angular smartphone surfaced along with information about the London being the first phone to run the QNX operating system. Today, however, new photos of quite a different looking phone were leaked, according to CrackBerry. Looking strikingly similar to an iPhone, this new Black ...

Just when you thought it was safe to continue to enjoy the internet, yet another ugly censorship law raises its ugly head. Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is an international trade agreement negotiated by the European Union, the United States, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Australia, Mexico, and Morocco, Singapore as well as a few other countries, whose aim is to enforce copyright and tackle counte ...

Opponents of a pair of controversial copyright bills won a temporary reprieve, when upcoming votes in the Senate and House of Representatives were postponed. Lawmakers stopped anti-piracy legislation in its tracks on Friday, delivering a stunning win for Internet companies that staged an unprecedented online protest this week to kill the previously fast-moving bills. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said ...

Shade Software Solutions announced the release of their localised news and information service Ah Wha Gwan(TM) (AWG) in collaboration with Copiers Limited Jamaica. The goal of this service is to simplify and improve how Jamaicans at home and within the Diaspora, access relevant local and international news. AWG is primarily targeted to the Jamaican community within the England, United States and Canada but ...

According to Research by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by PayPal, 2016 will be the year you throw your wallet away. Cash, cheques and cards will no longer be a necessity, all you’ll need will be your mobile phone and you’ll be good to go, whether online or on the high street. As well as paying for goods without having to queue, the report reveals shoppers can look forward to being able to carry digital ...

We''re getting closer to a world in which a heads-up display could be built right into your contact lenses. If you watch Torchwood, you''ll be used to seeing Gwen Cooper wearing contact lenses that send information back to the Torwchood computers. Scientists at the University of Washington and Aalto University, Finland, have developed a prototype contact lens that could potentially provide the wearer with h ...

PC Advisor reports that Microsoft is denying that Xbox Live customers were hacked. The company claim that their customers were victims of unauthorised charges as result of phishing scams. Reports began surfacing this week that users of the online gaming service from Microsoft for the Xbox console were finding charges on their credit or debit cards for Microsoft Points, the currency used within the service. ...

An "Occupy Flash" website is urging PC users to rip Adobe's omnipresent media player off their computers and embrace HTML5. Focused primarily on desktop Flash, the group is asking the world to boldly uninstall the multimedia player from desktops and laptops. It argues that as long as Flash — a proprietary "fossil," in its words — is ubiquitous on computers it will continue to see development, despite the av ...

The UKs Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, who represents Britain's 300,000 Jews, blames Steve Jobs for creating a selfish consumer culture that has only brought unhappiness. Speaking at an interfaith gathering attended by the Queen last week, Sacks compared the iPad to the tablets of the Ten Commandments that Moses brought down from the mountains. “The consumer society was laid down by the late Steve Jobs coming ...